Alexandra Jaffe, Ph.D. California State University Long Beach Linguistics Department Chair

Alexandra Jaffe received her Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from Indiana University and is Professor and Chair of the Linguistics Department at CSULB and joint appointee in Anthropology. Her primary area of research is Corsica, where she has studied language planning in several domains, including education, the media and literature. Her analyses combine detailed attention to linguistic interactions with a focus on social processes of reproduction and change; in particularly the tensions that inhere in the experiences of linguistic minorities. In 1999, she published Ideolologies in Action: Language Politics in Corsica with Mouton de Gruyter, winner of the first Sapir book prize from the Society of Linguistic Anthropology. She has also published widely on sociolinguistic representations in the media, the sociolinguistics of orthography and the notion of stance. This latter subject is the topic of the 2009 edited volume Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives, (OUP). Following a 4-year collaborative project on linguistic and representational practices in tourism, the media and education in Finland, Corsica, Ireland and Wales. co-authored publication Sociolinguistics from the Periphery: Small Languages in New Circumstances (Cambridge, 2016). Jaffe has been co-editor of the journal Linguistics and Education and recently finished a term as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.